The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| A Boston railway company has drawn the
line on the dog. and will no longer permit it to
| ride on any but their open cars
| IT is stated that not single oil refinery
remains on the Atlantic coast that is not directly
| or indirectly controlled by the Standard Oil
| monopoly
/ THE biggest tree in California-and it is a
monster, indeed-is the keystone State in
| the Calaveras Grove 1t is 325 feet high, and
| 45 feet in circumference.
TREASURE sEARCHERs are at work on tie
Orange county On. W Poorhouse farm digging
for several thousand dollars in specie which they
claim were buried in the ground almost half a
| century ago
The Mexicans have recently introduced new
wrinkle in bull fighting, which is to dot the
arena with electric lights 1t is said that the
| brilliant lights make the tamest bull wild with
| rage and terror.
| CHRISTMAS PRESENTS are being sent this year
in large numbers by foreigners in this country
| to friends and relatives on the other side. One
| firm alone in New York estimates it will trans
| init in Christmas gifts almost S5OO'OOO
THREE petrified toads were found in bucket
| in the cellar of the Cumberland Valley Railroad
station at Chambersburg, Pa, recently The
bucket was placed in the cellar last summer,
| when the toads are supposed to have hoped
| into it.
| SOME would-be jokers of Birmingham, Mich,
| overloaded a gun and gave it to boy to shoot
He pulled the trigger and the gun burst, and the
| lad received fatal injuries. The jokers fed and
| he lay bleeding for several hours before assist
| ance came.
A MANUFACTURER in New York State is en-
gagged in drafting design for car to be made
entirely of wood pulp. 1t will be light. cheap,
and indestTuctible by fire or collision. If it
should be thrown off the track it would simply
bound into the air and settle down into its place.
| THE raid on deer forests on the island of
Lewis, Scotland, was made by 1900 cotters,
headed by pipers. The killing of the deer
| may have been eXcusable, but there was no
warrant for terrifying the poor animals with
! bagpipes first. Mr.. Bergh ought to so to Scot
| land
AN ATTEMPT to apply the civil service reform
| idea 90 the city government was made in Chi
| cago on Monday night by the Board of Alder
| men. It failed by two votes. Letters favoring
| the proposed move were read from number of
| the largest mercantile and manufacturing firms
in Chicago.
| EDWIN D. HILTON, Paterson machinist, has
| completed silk loom which occupies less space
| than typewriter and weaves silk handker-
| chiefs of pretty pattern, four inches square. A
child can operate it. Silk manufacturers of
| Paterson say it is the smallest working loom
ever made
PHILADELPHIA next to New York, receives
more fruit from across the ocean than any other
port. When the regular season begins two or
three steamers arrive every week, each contain
ing from 20 600 to 10000 boxes of oranges and
| lemons, making an average of 10000 boxes of
fruit received weekly.
IT is announced that paper bottles are to be
manufactured on a very extensive scale; their
| weight is less than those of glass or stoneware,
and they are less liable to breakage; paper be-
ing also an excellent non-conductor, fluids
| stored in alright paper bottles will withstand
| a more intense degree of heat or cold than when
put in ordinary bottles.
DR. o. P FoRBUsH a Montpelier Vt, den
fist, had narrow escape from death by the
bursting on Monday, OF his vulcanizer at
pressure of 316 pounds to the square inch. The
| brass cap struck the ceiling, and gancing
passed within two inches of his head. and
through a window behind him. The apparatus
itself was twisted out of shape and the oil stove
beneath was blown to fragments
A MONKEY exhibited in museum at Tacubaya
in Mexico was condemned to be shot under jul
dicial sentence 1t seems that the animal bit
man. who died from the results of the bite. The
family of the deceased brought complaint be-
fore Judge, who was foolish enough to insti
tute criminal proceedings against the monkey
and sentenced him to be shot Luckily the
manager of the museum brought influence to
bear and succeeded in obtaining a change of
the sentence to perpetual Imprisonment. The
monkey is now enduring the punishment of his
crime behind the bars of an iron cage at the
museum.
| THE FASTEST VOYAGE on record between Eng
land and Australia has just been accomplished
by the huge steamer Ormuz, of the Orient
line She left Suez Oct. q, and arrived at King
| Georges sound eighteen days later, Nov. H. and
| landed the mails and passengers in the unprece
| dented time of twenty-four DAYS from London
| Throughout the voyage, from the head of the
| Red Sea to the extreme southwestern corner of
| the Australian continent, the vessel travelled at
| an average speed of more than eighteen miles
| an hour-a rate considerably in advance of
| anything yet accomplished on the voyage to
| Australia
Two bad sons of Farmer Peck, who lives on
the Upper Hornet creek, Idaho, went hunting
| on a recent Sunday. They found bear cub and
| shot it. Then they came upon full grown Gin
namon bear, and fired at and missed it. The
bear started for the boys, and the oldest, aged
Is, stood his ground, and with second shot,
broke bruins leg. The animal didn't stop The
boy dubbed his gun and tried to strike the bear,
who knocked the gun from his hands and caught
his arm in his mouth. Then the younger boy,
aged IL, ran up, and. putting his gun to the
bears head, blew out his brains and saved his
brother life.
IT has often been asked how long it would
take to refill the Lake of Geneva G4ake Lemau)
if it were empted. The lake covers an area of
81, 100000 square metres (2223 square niles It's
greatest depth is 312 meters NEARLY 1,02I feet,
and its average depth may therefore be assumed
| to be $50 meters (nearly 400 feet. In accord
milliards of cubic metres (close upon 5000 mil
lairdS of gallons) of water. The average inflow
from the Rhone per second is ~ cubic metres
Is ,943 gaons) or 1882 800 cubic metres g 49,
972 gallons) in twenty four hours. To fill the
basin Of the lake, therefore, the Rhone would
require LOG years.
SHORTLY before the forenoon service began in
Stockbridge Free church, Edinburgh. Canada,
on Sunday, Nov. ID, young man named James
Fairbairn came quietly in at the church door,
and as soon as he hal got inside he rushed with
outstretched arms along the passage and I'D
into the pulpit Coming to the front. he cried
out in loud voice: II am Elijah. the prophet"
This caused much commotion among those of
the congregation already assembled. Several at
tempts were made to remove the intruder, and
at length force had to be used. 1t seems Fair
BARN is liable to mental arrangement. His
family is connected with the church
Miss GRACE DODGE who has been member
of the New York Board of Education for the
last year, made her first speech before that
august body few days ago. The occasion was
the appointment of a certain teacher as princi-
pal OF grammar school. There were two can
dldates, and Miss Dodge did not hesitate to say
that one who was highly commended was not
| 1tted for the position Miss Dodge had visited
her school and found that she was devoid of
discipline, and did not command the respect of
her pupils. The other she did not know but as
her record was excellent she felt constraine dfo
| vote for her. All this was said In the feWest
| words possible and Miss DOdgeS earnest disin-